Travel blog by a global nomad
We sailed across the short narrow strait between Sao Vincente and Sao Antao early in the morning. I wasn’t too keen to get up, but our Expedition Leader mentioned on the wakeup call that the sun was just starting to tint the mountains of Sao Antao, so I thought I better take a picture in [...]
Since we weren’t going to sail the minuscule 7 nautical miles to Sao Antao until tomorrow, a meal in town was in order! I knew John (historian) wanted to go in so after recap, I approached him to see if he had any plans. He didn’t. He was wondering if he should ask Fernando and [...]
The afternoon was spent on an excursion. At 1.30pm, those who wanted to go for a tour were bundled onto a bus waiting at the gangway and we headed off to… a fort. Seemed we were going to get a little tour of Mindelo first!
So we snaked our way past some pretty swanky 4 and [...]
Turned out the ship was not only tangled up in nets yesterday in Furna, but had also run aground… The pilot kept insisting the depth was 12m, but a depth gauge in a zodiac suggested with the tide out the depth was more like 5.8m and our ship has a draft of 7m… So. Just [...]
It only took about 2 hours to sail across to Brava island, gradually becoming more distinct. We had a pilot on board who seemed to think we could anchor in the shettled harbour of Furna… I didn’t know what that meant until we were in Furna… The Captain through out the anchor and then manouvered [...]
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